Sentences with phrase «gas pipeline accidents»

This startling visual is straightforward and uses little flare to portray the severe impact of oil and gas pipeline accidents.

Not exact matches

The accident, though, will likely shift the U.S. debate over Keystone away from whether or not building the pipeline would have any significant impact on greenhouse gases (the U.S. State Department says it won't, environmentalists disagree), to whether or not Western Canada's oil is a particularly hazardous fuel.

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

This reasoning is like a person thinking they will have fewer accidents while working on a gas pipeline if they had a lit torch with them so they could see the gas leak better...

Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.

Wiese told several hundred oil and gas pipeline compliance officers that his agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (PHMSA), has «very few tools to work with» in enforcing safety rules even after Congress in 2011 allowed it to impose higher fines on companies that cause major accidents.

Third, we're going to create our own independent scientific panel to evaluate Alberta's ability to deal with a potential catastrophic accident involving B.C. natural gas that flows through pipelines from British Columbia through Alberta into the United States.

These accidents include explosions, pipeline breaches, fires, and gas leaks.